During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
BIANCA JAGGERI think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
More Bianca Jagger Quotes
-
-
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
BIANCA JAGGER -
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
BIANCA JAGGER -
President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
BIANCA JAGGER -
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
BIANCA JAGGER -
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
BIANCA JAGGER -
What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we’ve been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.
BIANCA JAGGER -
I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.
BIANCA JAGGER -
I didn’t want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
BIANCA JAGGER -
Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
BIANCA JAGGER -
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
BIANCA JAGGER -
I don’t want to wear what every other women wears. I won’t be dictated to.
BIANCA JAGGER -
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
BIANCA JAGGER -
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
BIANCA JAGGER -
The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
BIANCA JAGGER -
I feel great identification with the developing world.
BIANCA JAGGER -
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
BIANCA JAGGER -
People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
BIANCA JAGGER -
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
BIANCA JAGGER -
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
BIANCA JAGGER -
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
BIANCA JAGGER -
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.
BIANCA JAGGER -
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war.
BIANCA JAGGER -
People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
BIANCA JAGGER -
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
BIANCA JAGGER -
I am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
BIANCA JAGGER -
George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
BIANCA JAGGER